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Engineering & Design
TRIDAR® Solution Stresses Integration, Affordability, Service
“If you have a lemon, make lemonade.” That vintage saying applies to Triad Drones in the age of COVID. Since…
Navy To Seek Pilots For Revolutionary Aerial Refueling Drone
Last month the U.S. Navy reached a major milestone toward its “game-changing” goal of fielding carrier-based aerial refueling drones, flight-testing…
Draganfly Receives Patent for VTOL Delivery Drone
Draganfly is working to develop a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) cargo delivery drone
Tronics High-performance Accelerometer Released
TDK Corporation announced the release of Tronics AXO315, a miniature high performance 1-axis closed-loop MEMS accelerometer with a 24-bit digital…
HAPS/HALE: Seeking Solar’s Sweet Spot
A “signal” event recently energized high altitude pseudo-satellites. Technology and business issues remain.
Mimicking Biology for Better Drones
Imitating hawks, bees, pufferfish and box turtles could improve UAS performance.
BOREAL, Flying Far for Science
A fixed-wing UAV capable of extreme long-distance flights supplies essential research data to climate scientists and weather forecasters. The modular,…
Trends: Empowering Energy
A growing number of use cases are enhancing drone efficiencies for fossil fuels, renewables and power generation.
Curtiss-Wright Selected to Provide Ultra Small Form Factor Flight Computer and Ethernet Switch for New All-Electric Air Taxi
Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division, a proven leading supplier of rugged ultra-small form factor (USFF) processing and networking solutions, today announced that…
Swift Engineering’s HALE UAS Completes First Flight
The high altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial system (UAS) from Swift Engineering recently completed its first flight at Spaceport…
Volvo Car Group and Waymo Form Partnership
Volvo Car Group is now working with Waymo to develop driverless cars. The plan is to integrate Waymo’s self-driving technology,…
Full, Free Access to ProjectWise 365 for WFH Infrastructure Engineering Through Sept. 30
Bentley Systems, a provider of design software for infrastructure construction and operations, has opened its ProjectWise 365 cloud service to infrastructure project…
UVision a “Hero” in NATO-Member Navy Trial
Asymmetric gunboats. Vulnerable oil and gas platforms. Hijacked freighters. Defending against naval threats is a constant concern. This June, Israel-based…
iXblue’s Atlans INS Selected for OGI’s Mobile Mapping LiDAR Solution
iXblue’s Atlans Inertial Navigation System (INS) will provide uninterrupted data georeferencing to Oceanographic & Geophysical Instruments Inc.’s (OGI) new mobile…
Yandex Fourth Generation Self-Driving Cars Operating in Moscow
Yandex recently introduced the fourth generation of its self-driving cars, developed in partnership with Hyundai Mobis. The platform operates on…
Rocos and Boston Dynamics Partner to Enhance Spot, a Mobile Robot
Spot, a mobile robot designed to go where other robots can’t, can now easily be operated from a remote location….
